Mixed Emotions - Rosemary Clooney

My friend Rosemary

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I love growing and using herbs and one of my favourites is Rosemary. Rosemary is easy to grow, looks and smells wonderful and can be used in many ways. Growing Rosemary. ***************** How to grow Rosemary is the obvious place to start this review. The first thing to say is that Rosemary is really easy to grow and in my experience quite forgiving too! Having said that Rosemary is not easy to grow from seed. I recommend you buy your plant from a nursery. They are really cheap, usually about £1 each. April is the ideal month for planting outside although it is not to late now in early may. Rosemary originates from the Mediterranean and so not surprisingly likes to grow in a sunny spot. It also likes sandy soil although my plants grow very happily in clay soil. Planting is really easy; simply dig a hole about 3 inches deep ...

anwar 02.05.2008 · Read full review
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Rosemary And Me

Advantages: It does look quite pretty and you can eat it!
Disadvantages: Not totally hardy in cold areas and needs a bit of sand.

currently, so a plant will not set you back even as much as a Schwartz jar of the dried herb. It is easy to propagate too; just take a side shoot as a cutting, stick it in a pot of sand mixed with compost, and wait for the roots to take. They will! My little bush has provided cuttings to several neighbours very successfully. Originating in the Mediterranean, rosemary prefers sunny spots and sandy soil. The sunshine is essential, perhaps the sandy soil less so. My soil here has a lot of clay in it, but is dressed regularly with homemade compost and ? aside from a sprinkling of sand and some compost when I planted it ? my rosemary bush has thrived in its sunny corner of the heavy-soiled garden. Aside from needing sunshine and as light a soil as possible, rosemary is a strong enough plant. Mine has suffered many an assault from small boys ...

jillmurphy 30.05.2004 · Read full review
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Rosemary for Remembrance

Advantages: A wonderfully versitile herb which has many uses.
Disadvantages: Can take a little while to get established, likes good drainage and a sunny position.

Rosemary When I first came to view this house, I remember getting that feeling, as soon as I stepped over the threshold, that this was to be my home. Standing in the back bedroom, looking out over the garden, I remember thinking it had everything I could ever want in a garden, and it was as much for this, as for the house itself, that I made my offer and bought my first home. The garden was full then of mature shrubs, an apple tree, a huge clematis and a bower of honeysuckle. The land was grassed over, though this was the first thing I changed when I moved in, lifting the turf and laying paths, flower beds, vegetable plots and areas for seating. It was not, however, until after I moved in and had my first real explore of the garden I have come to love and cherish, that I found, nestling in a corner beside the house wall ...

phoenixgreen 07.11.2006 · Read full review
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